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Dress your family in corduroy and denim by David Sedaris

Some notable excerpts that left me breathless and 'wow':

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

'The two of you grew apart,' my mother would say. She made it sound as if we'd veered off in different directions, though in fact we had the exact same destination. I just never made it.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

Currently reading

Bottomfeeder by Taras Grescoe

More astonishing to me is the fact that anybody eats the hagfish, a lampreylike bottom-dweller that haunts abyssal depths two miles beneath the surface. Lacking a spine, a gas bladder, or even a jaw, it employs a rasping tongue to burrow into its prey. Marine biologists who find whale corpses on the ocean bottom often observe that the flesh of the dead giants is actually crawling—a grisly submarine puppet show courtesy of the thousands of hagfish writhing through the rotten meat. Threatened by a shark, the hagfish will excrete mucins from dozens of pores, choking its attacker's gills with gallons of rapidly expanding slime. (It then sloughs off the mucus by tying itself into a bow and squirming the knot down its body.) The hagfish gets my vote as the most repellent fish in the sea. Yet Koreans consider it a delicacy: they import nine million pounds a year and savor it as an appetizer after broiling it in sesame oil.

About to read

Candy Girl: A year in the life of an unlikely stripper by Diable Cody

From the woman who wrote the Academy Award-winning screenplay for Juno. This slim tome focuses on Cody's brief career as a stripper. Too bad they didn't include free pasties...